PERUVIAN WHISTLING JUGS.
The silvados or musical jugs found among the burial places of Peru arc most ingenious specimens of lipndiwork. A silvio in the William S. Vt.ux collection at Philadelphia consists of two vases, whoso bodies are joined one to the other, with a hole or opening between them. The neck of one of these vases is dosed, with the exception of a. small opening in which a clay pipe is inserted leading to the body of the whistle. When a liquid is poured into the opennecked vase, the air is compressed into the other, and in escaping through the narrow opening is forced iuto the whistle, the vibrations producing sounds. Many of these sounds represent the notes of birds; one in the Clay collection of Philadelphia, Pa., iimnitates the notes of the robin or some other member of the thiush tribe peculiar to Ptiil. Tho closed neck of this double vase is modelled iuto a representation of a bird's head, which is thrush-like in character.
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Waikato Times, Volume 2620, Issue XXXII, 27 April 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)
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167PERUVIAN WHISTLING JUGS. Waikato Times, Volume 2620, Issue XXXII, 27 April 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)
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